plait
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From Old French pleit, from Latin plecto, which is akin to Old Norse flétta (Danish flette) and to Russian сплетать.
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plait (plural plaits)
- A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait.
- A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
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plait (third-person singular simple present plaits, present participle plaiting, simple past and past participle plaited)
- (transitive) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
- (transitive) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
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to double in narrow folds — see pleat
to interweave
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plait m. (oblique plural plaiz, nominative singular plaiz, nominative plural plait)
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- English: plea
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plait
- Alternative form of plaît.
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plait (plural plaits)
